Language code: `ira`

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ira

The table below provides technical details for the Iranian languages language, designated by the ira code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code	`ira`
Name	Iranian languages
Text direction	Left-to-Right
Language varieties	Western IranianEastern Iranian
Related languages	HindiUrduBengaliPunjabiKati
Key facts	Descend from Proto-Iranian spoken roughly 3,000 years agoEarliest written records are in Old Persian and Avestan from the 6th–4th centuries BCEHistorically spread by Scythian, Median and Persian peoples across a vast zone from the Balkans to Western ChinaModern Iranian languages employ diverse scripts including Perso-Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic and GeorgianSeveral extinct Iranian languages such as Sogdian and Bactrian are crucial for reconstructing Silk Road history
Sample phrase	سلام، حال شما چطور است؟
Character encodings	UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32
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The Iranian languages language, identified by the code ira, falls under the 'Collective' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Genetic' by its type.

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